How to Install and Uninstall astrometry.net Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "astrometry.net" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install astrometry.net on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "astrometry.net" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall astrometry.net on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                astrometry.net
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the astrometry.net package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: astrometry.net
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.82+dfsg-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/science
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 8145
Depends: netpbm, python3, python3-astrometry, libastrometry0 (>= 0.82+dfsg), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcfitsio9 (>= 3.480~), libgsl25 (>= 2.6), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libnetpbm10, libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libwcs7 (>= 4.8.2)
Recommends: curl, libcfitsio-bin, python3-exif, source-extractor
Filename: pool/universe/a/astrometry.net/astrometry.net_0.82+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1064756
MD5sum: 3e835df67673e38831022d43bb4c83b4
SHA1: 60506836a2b69f361483cd4dd3c2115c2d9c6771
SHA256: 64353f761571204433b1a6cf6ea14e2e819be4e603f5b25d1ea1c75bf8833014
SHA512: e2c051a822830e3f765af5a6a798f676a01f233539f9deba6fbd0b772e3cd68a6121e0da2e9f2a0231a76cda9c3f70b6287336ec8bdc9b1a5c670dce2c04588a
Homepage: http://www.astrometry.net
Description-en: Astrometry plate solver
The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry
world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the
transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.
Description-md5: 5088a1bfc88af04d691f7b897003b643